"chat is a two-way conversation "..."chat to sounds awkward and is rather not accepted. "
So is "speak to someone" and "talk to someone.", both in AmE and EE.…
The progressive routinely takes an eventive verb to make a state out of it, which brings in at least two properties that unmodified simple eventives do not: durativity and homogeneity. Your story is a…
In “The goal is hard to reach,” “hard to reach” is adjectival and modifies the goal.
The goal is hard to be reached? No good. Neither formal nor informal. No good. “Hard to be reached” could even clu…
"His motivation is strong." - "Jego motywacja jest silna."
"He has strong motivation." - "On ma silną motywację."
He has A strong motivation.
He is well/highl…
Crave (strongly desire, want) is quite close to long for or yearn for. This false analogy is most likely the culprit.
Crave is transitive and let's keep it that way.…
Why?
There are stative and dynamic verbs which stranslates to czasowniki statycz e i dynamiczne.
“Stative” should NOT mean “static” in any circumstances. “Static” should mean “statyczny/a/e” in any …
Compliments are usually paid, or given, but they can also be told.
People tell stories, instructions, lies, tales, news, facts, jokes, secrets, riddles, and… compliments. Compliments fit right in with…
Czy would można stosować z czasownikami statycznymi?
There are no static verbs.
Stative derives from state. Static derives from stand (as in stand still).
She's being rude today. - Dziś jest …
"Jansky, czy to jest niepoprawne (niegramatyczne) to kwestia dyskusyjna,"
No. it's not. Ungrammatical means ungrammatical.
English personal and relative/interrogative pronouns still m…
I thought that they might have won.
In everyday AmE, this would be considered overstilted.
No, it wouldn't be. It means something else.
Stop confusing people.…
Technically correct (and hopelessly formal) would be “For whom are you waiting?”
"Formal" cannot be qualified as hopelessly formal.
“Who are you waiting for?” is accepted, common, unpreten…
That's much more complicated.
Try getting a handle on the meanings of the bare "school" in this:
A: Where is Sue?
B: She is in school today. She was ill yesterday, but today she is OK…
Czemu w tym trzecim zdaniu jest też czas past Simple skoro jest to identyczne zdanie jak dwa pierwsze, a w nich może być tylko past Perfect? Tego już zupełnie nie rozumiem..
Those sentences are n…
"Proszę o sprawdzenie pod względem językowym, dziękuje:-)"
What you wrote stinks. Start from the beginning, and revise, revise, revise…
Just to get you started:
STEM is a methodical appro…
Steps are meant to be easy.
Steps are easy because they are easy to take and imply a goal easy to reach.
Books are easy to read, rather than simple to read; teachers are easy-going rather than simple…
Ja lubię (this is the) best thing since sliced bread :D
Should it be "...the best thing since sliced bread" or "...best thing since sliced bread"? Which of the two do you like bes…
Myślę, że jest tak jak w tekście piosenki pod oficjalnym filmikiem (w opisie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgwAAwj9zs
czyli "oh and I" tylko ona tak jakby nosowo to śpiewała i przeciąga…
Which of the two contradictory statements have you just answered in the affirmative?
1.The progressive is a stativizer.
2.It makes the nature of a stative verb dynamic when a stative is used in the …
The continuous tense form, in addition to other functions it serves, is a stativizer: it takes a verb (any verb) and makes a state out of it. (...)
But the power of the progressive is enough to cha…
(1)The story happened to me one really hot summer about five years ago. (2) It's probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me while driving a car. (See note 1). (3) I had bought/boug…
@Jansky
Or am I terribly wrong?
No, you are not terribly wrong. You are just a little bit wrong when you write (typing is writing, isn’t it?) that that’s how you would say it (again?) should you be g…
In Argentina they often use mango but I also heard mosca and cobre . They use American slang words for money/ currency, like bucks, moolah, dough, dead presidents and probably a few others.
I always …
"I told you it would be be a beautiful day when Tom came back"
Tom's coming back was meant to overlap (or be simultaneous with) its being a beautiful day.
Cf: It will be a beautiful …
It was fine until Mr. Perfectski turned up ;-)
It wasn't fine. Dig it, drill it, and kill it:
I have an umbrella with me in case of rain.
I have an umbrella with me in case it rains.
I have an …
...Ostatnio wpadlo mi:
1. This is not my first rodeo - staram sie tego uzywac, bo to mowi wszystko.
2. I've been round the block a few times.
Those “sayings” do not mean everything. They mean …
A redundant “of“ in all kinds of locutions popular among the baseball crowd some forty (or more) years ago surfaced on TV broadcasts and started the plague:
....it won’t be that long of a speech, tha…
“You told me you would drive me to the concert” or “You told me you will drive me to the concert”?
“I just said I was a writer” or “I just said I am a writer”?
Yesterday I took a cab back to the hote…